Browser wont display hello world app

[NoobCherry]

For some reason when i launch my webapp, a bsic Hello World, using
cherrypy and run it on localhost:8080, it does not show in the
browser.

According to the terminal everything is fine, but firefox doesn't seem
to pick it up. I've tried this with two separate tutorials, but
neither seem to work.

They do however work on other computers.

I'm running it on a ubuntu box. python 2.5, with cherrypy installed
via as .deb.

please help

[Tim Roberts]

It is possible (although unusual) that your Ubuntu box has set very
strong firewall rules using ipchains that has closed down access to any
non-standard ports on localhost. What do you see in the browser when
you do http://localhost:8080? What do you see if you go into a command
line and say
telnet localhost 8080

Are you actually serving on localhost, or did you set your configuration
only to serve outside?

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